Pride and Prejudice
Chapters 1-16
In-Class Assignment
Respond in complete sentences:
Chapters 1-2
1. Find a quotation to describe Mr. Bennet.
2. What are the names of the Bennet sisters? There are five.
3. Who has taken a lease at Netherfield Park?
Chapter 3-5
4. Who is “worth ten thousand a year”?
5. Who had formerly been in trade but had made a tolerable fortune and risen to the honour of knighthood?
Chapter 6
6. Which character espouses the following views on marriage?
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other, or ever so similar before-hand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation: and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.”
7. Who is being described? “______had neither genius nor taste; and though vanity had given her application, it had given her likewise a pedantic air and conceited manner.”
Chapter 7
8. Who are the two girls referred to in the following quotation?
“From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest two girls in the country. I have suspected it for some time, but now I am convinced.”
9. Who is the “my dear referred to in the following quotation?
“No, my dear, you had better go on horseback, because it seems likely to rain; and then you must stay all night.”
10. What are the reactions of Mrs. Hurst, Ms. Bingley, and Mr. Darcy to Elizabeth’s three-mile walk to Netherfield?
Chapter 9
11. Who is being described in the following quotation:
“______was a stout, well grown girl of fifteen, with a fine complexion and good-humoured countenance; a favorite with her mother, whose affection had brought her into public at an early age.”
Chapter 10-11
12. How would you characterize Darcy’s feelings toward Elizabeth up to this point in the novel?
Chapter 13-14
13. Who is Mr. Collins? Describe him.
Chapter 15
14. Quote the description of Mr. Collins at the beginning of the chapter.
15. Who is Mr. Wickham? Quote a description of him.
Chapter 16
16. Describe the relationship between Wickham and Darcy, according to Wickham.
The quiz on Friday will cover Chapters 1 -23